You need to feel that you're making a difference.
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood. . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.